June Jordan and Harryette Mullen on PennSound in 2001

June Jordan at Kelly Writers House: photo source

Thanks to the recordings and document at PennSound, I discovered a reading that June Jordan gave at Kelly Writers House on the campus of University of Pennsylvania. The reading took place on April 23, 2001, a little over a year before Jordan died on June 14, 2002.

I've enjoyed taking a look at Jordan's reading and listening to individual poems on PennSound.

A few days after Jordan's reading, Harryette Mullen visited Kelly Writers House and gave a reading as well. Her poems from the reading appear on PennSound as well. 

I went and looked at the calendar for the readings, and I was pleased to see that following Mullen's reading, a few poets, including the scholars Kathy Lou Schultz and Herman Beavers, shared poems as well. 

Related:

• A Notebook on Black Poets on PennSound